The Toronto International Film Festival has announced more films for its 2009 line-up. Tellingly, most of the big ones are “special presentations,” i.e., not world premieres, so expect many of these to make their world premieres at the Venice Film Festival as already speculated by the trades.
The biggest highlights of this small round of announcements (small in length) are:
– Michael Moore’s economic crisis documentary titled, “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
– “Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans,” which is Werner Herzog’s not-a-remake re-imagining of Abel Ferrara’s “Bad Lieutenant,” but this time starring Nicolas Cage in the fucked-up Harvey Keitel role. Here’s the “wtf?” trailer.
– Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut, the roller derby rom com, “Whip It” starring Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, rapper Eve, Zoe Bell (“Death Proof”), Alia Shawkat, Ari Graynor (“Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”), Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Stern, and Barrymore herself, while musician Landon Pigg essentially plays himself: a musician. Here’ the recent trailer.
– The Coen Brother’s new picture, “A Serious Man,” about a Midwestern professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) in 1967 who watches his life unravel when his wife (Sari Wagner) prepares to leave him because his inept brother (Richard Kind) won’t move out of the house. Definitely a smaller cast in this one, which might effect its commercial prospects, but surely not its quality. We’ve seen no stills, no trailer, no nothing from this one so far.
Correction: Only None two of these four aforementioned films are world premieres (though most are North American debuts, “A Serious Man,” and “Whip It” are world premieres), so does that mean, the rest are all set for Venice?
Other films include include Rebecca Miller’s “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” with Robin Wright Penn, “Triage” with Colin Farrell, and “Dorian Gray” with Colin Firth.
Here’s some of our TIFF/Fall Film Festival predictions if you wanna see where we were right and wrong. Major name films previously announced to play at TIFF include, Diablo Cody’s “Jennifer’s Body,” Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant,” Jane Campion’s “Bright Star,” and many, many more. [IndieWire]
